Word: write
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...making a single smooth couplet, would be more willing to admit that he who really can express himself rhymetically and with pleasure giving words, has a right to expect from them more than sneers of indifference. The trouble now is that the poets are too few in number. We write essays in abundance and the essayist meets with no slander. If, then, more poems were written and required to be written, we claim that the poet would be treated differently, and his productions would be received with the favor they deserve. Why not have themes for poems as well...
...lectures on criticism laid great stress on the necestity of giving an outline of the novel or article which was to be criticised. This fall the instructor who lectured on junior themes again emphasised the need of such an arrangement in a really good criticism. Almost every junior in writing his first theme this year followed this advice and wrote a synopsis of the work criticised. When the themes were returned the following was written upon almost every theme, "Why tell the story; this is not criticism. Re-write." To rewrite a theme simply because the plan advocated by some...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - As an undergraduate at Harvard it pains me to discover that any man ever graduated from this college who could write such a letter as appeared in your issue of Wednesday. He speaks of cranks in college in the most "grandiloquent" and patronizing way, and insinuates that your correspondent belongs in the list. He not only accuses him of being a crank, but declares that he is untruthful and malignant. If the "Graduate" would read the accounts of the so-called sophomore-freshman rush which appeared in some of the Boston papers, I think that even...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - As a graduate of Harvard, it pains me to discover that there are now in college any cranks who could write such a letter as I saw in your issue of Saturday last on the subject of sensational reporters. Yet I have hopes for him, for none but a freshman would be so ignorant of Rhetoric as to write "to deliberately falsify," and none but a freshman would be guilty of such bombastic grandiloquence as obounds in this letter. He may yet learn, when he studies Rhetoric, the best writer is he who tells "a cold...
...obtained by distributing the themes in the same manner as at present. Whoever is at all interested in his work in English would not grudge the time necessary to read the theme as it would take little more than five minutes. He would then be spared the trouble of writing a criticism which inevitably takes up more than the half hour which we were assured would be sufficient, provided the work is done conscientiously. But as the matter now stands, the student is obliged to write about six lines on such topics as the following, sentences, figures, clearness, and vocabulary...